Japan will probably come under pressure to fix its economic problems, including its dismal bad-loan situation, when top financial ministers and officials of the Group of Seven industrial powers gather in Ottawa for a two-day meeting, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said Tuesday.
Asked whether he expected Japan's G7 counterparts to express concern over the outlook of the Japanese economy, Shiokawa said, "They may do so."
He said the G7 nations are particularly concerned about the bad loans plaguing the nation's financial institutions.